HAAKON II SIGURDSSON

born c. 1147 died 1162 byname Haakon Broadshouldered, Norwegian Hkon Herdebreid king of Norway (115762), illegitimate son of Sigurd Munn (d. 1155). On the death of his uncle King Eystein II in 1157, the 10-year-old Haakon received the support of Eystein's partisans against the rival king, Inge I, whom they finally defeated and killed in 1161. In 1162, however, the supporters of another pretender, Magnus Erlingsson, defeated the forces of the boy-king Haakon and killed him.